Alison Jackson Quotes
Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
Quotes to Explore
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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I never read about photography.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
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My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
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The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?
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It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.
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I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.
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Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
